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Old 06-04-2009
Franklin52 Franklin52 is online now Forum Staff  
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The file is can not be edited "in place" with awk. Redirect the output to a temporary file and replace the original file with it.

Code:
awk '<commands>' error_correction.txt datafile > tempfile
mv tempfile datafile